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Keeper

Peet, Mal  more...
   

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Junior Fiction
BIC Subjects: Fiction
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Imprint: Walker Books Ltd
Publication Date: 1/05/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom



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This is an extraordinary debut novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize. In a newspaper office, Paul Faustino, South America's top football writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato "the Cat", the world's greatest goalkeeper. On the table between them stands the World Cup. In the hours that follow, El Gato tells his incredible story - how he, a poor logger's son, learns to become a World Cup-winning goalkeeper so good he is almost unbeatable. And the most remarkable part of this story is the man who teaches him: the mysterious Keeper, who haunts a football pitch at the heart of the claustrophobic rainforest...Ages 12+.


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